By Our Correspondent. Former Higher Education Commission chairman Dr Attaur Rehman on Tuesday called on the government to allocate more resources to science, technology, research and innovation.
He was addressing a symposium on Bioequivalence and Bio-availability Studies organised by Centre for Bio-equivalence Studies and Bioassay Research, International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences University of Karachi at Al Raazi Hall. More...
By David Scott. C-Campus partnership for education in the cloud
A cloud-based ‘virtual’ campus will be the focus of a new agreement recently signed by two of Australia and China’s leading universities.
The ‘C-Campus’ agreement between the University of Melbourne and Tsinghua University will deliver joint classes and ‘e-subjects’ for students at both institutions, starting with advanced courses on separation science and technology in chemical engineering.
It will also function as a platform for research collaboration across disciplines including chemical engineering and medicine, with more disciplines being added progressively. Both universities have committed to establish seed funds to stimulate further joint research and innovation in online learning. Read more...
Jointly hosted by the Centre for the Study of Higher Education and the LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Education Leadership and Management.
Review of the Demand Driven Funding System A discussion with Andrew Norton
VENUE: Theatre 230, 234 Queensberry St. Carlton Victoria, Australia OR attend via webinar for interstate and international audiences. Registration is essential.
Andrew Norton, co-author of the report, has kindly agreed to participate an interactive discussion on the report on Review of the Demand Driven Funding System, which was released on Sunday.
On 12 November 2013 Minister for Education, the Hon Christopher Pyne, appointed a review panel to look at and make recommendations in relation to the demand driven funding arrangements. The review panel comprised the Hon Dr David Kemp and Mr Andrew Norton.
The panel looked at the impacts of the demand driven system and whether it is increasing participation, improving access to students from poorer backgrounds and rural and regional areas, and meeting the skill needs of the economy. It explored whether there were any adverse impacts on quality and considered the long term sustainability of the system.
The panel’s report to the Minister was released on April 13 and can be found at http://docs.education.gov.au/node/35537
Richard James, Professor of Higher Education and member of the Higher Education Standards Panel will chair this session. We hope that you will be able to join us for what will be a stimulating and engaging discussion on the implications of the demand driven funding arrangements.
We are expecting a high demand for this seminar so please RSVP by 10am on 16 April 2014. Registration is available below.
For interstate and international audiences, please join us via Webinar, which will start at 1:00 PM AEST.
You can also contribute to the discussion via our Twitter tag: #2014DDS
Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact Molly McKew: molly.mckew@unimelb.edu.au or tel: +61 3 8344 4605 (business hours)
"I'll never forget that experience," said Li Mingzhen, a senior college student at Fudan University in Shanghai, when recalling her interview with a well-known Chinese search engine company.
Li was weeded out in that competition last autumn. But it was not her failure that surprised her most. "I walked inside the interview room, and I found my college instructor was there, among other candidates," Li said. More...
Seven polytechnics and universities will get less government funding this year, figures from the Tertiary Education Commission show.
But total funding for tertiary institutions and industry training organisations has risen $49 million, or 1.8 percent.
Lincoln University has lost the most at $4.7 million, or more than 10 percent of its government funding. More...
Posted by Paul Kniest. Victorian Universities pay consultants a cool $17m in 2013. Today’s Higher Education Section of the Australian has a story entitled Unis consultants make $17m killing. In this story Andrew Trounson (who by the way broke the story on Vic TAFE funding Crisis on Wednesday 2 April well before The Age) reveals that Victoria’s universities spent about $17m on consultancy fees in 2013. According to the story Booz & Co were paid $6.5m by the University of Melbourne to provide advice on business practice and processes and who wouldn’t drink to that! Posted by Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office). This article by Terri MacDonald appears in the March 2014 issue of Advocate. 
Our Correspondent. THE Vice Chancellors (VCs) Committee set up by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has given a final shape to the future roadmap of higher education in Punjab for the next 10 years.
This was informed in a briefing regarding the future of higher education at a meeting presided over by Punjab Minister for Education Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan here Monday.
Under the roadmap, besides establishment of an international standard Information Technology and Technical University at Knowledge Park in Lahore, up-gradation of existing sub-campuses of public sector universities, granting of the status of full-fledged universities to some major government colleges and improvement of the infrastructure of the existing universities’ development projects worth Rs34.6 billion would be completed during the five years period. More...
By Beckie Smith. On a trade mission to Asia this week, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott rolled out the government’s outbound mobility programme, the New Colombo Plan (NCP), to Japan as part of the programme’s four nation trial scheme. More...
By Myra Imran. According to 2013 Global Think Tanks Index Report, 4 out of top 100 think tanks of the world and 4 out of top 65 defence and national security think tanks are from South Asia. Among these think tanks, no one is from Pakistan except one among 70 environment think tanks. The information was shared by Muhammad Feyyaz, from National Management College, Lahore, at a consultation on the topic of ‘Research and Teaching of Conflict Studies and Conflicts in Pakistan’, organised by Institute of Social and Policy Sciences (I-SAPS) in collaboration with Open Society Foundations (OSF). Read more...
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